Cangzhou.
A vast province adjoining the Chu Lands, divided into five regions by a great river.
The river was called the Cang River. It originated in the western mountain ranges, flowed east through all of Cangzhou, and finally emptied into the boundless East Sea.
The surging Cang River divided Cangzhou into five lands.
Each had its own name: Northern Cang Prefecture, Eastern Cang Prefecture, Southwestern Cang Prefecture, Southern Cang Prefecture, and Central Cang.
Central Cang was the most prosperous, the wealthiest and most fertile land in Cangzhou.
Dingqing Peak, home to the Sword-Washing Pool, lay within Cangzhou, in Northern Cang Prefecture.
At that moment, Jiang Ning's Primordial Spirit hovered above the highest heavens. The Heavenly Eye between his brows blazed with radiance as his gaze followed the invisible threads he had finished sorting out toward the southeast of Northern Cang Prefecture.
Found him!
His mind settled. The Heavenly Eye between his brows had locked onto a location.
An underground cavern beside the East Sea.
The cavern was deep, untouched by daylight.
Yet crimson light shone within it.
Inside, Jiang Ning saw human heads piled into a mountain, numbering in the thousands.
Beneath the heads lay a pool of blood glowing crimson.
A figure sat cross-legged beside it.
It was a man.
A man roughly twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old.
He was strikingly handsome, with an uncanny allure.
The man sat cross-legged beside the blood pool, wisps of crimson blood winding around him.
The bloody strands danced like spirit snakes, occasionally flowing into his nostrils.
Is this the murderer who slaughtered over three thousand people at the Sword-Washing Pool? Jiang Ning murmured inwardly.
At that moment, he could see invisible threads connecting every head in the blood pool to the bodies far away at the Sword-Washing Pool.
He could also see